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Olympics

Ancient Olympics:
Olympics is an International sports festival with wide variety of events participated by thousands of athletes from all over the world. An ancient Olympics game was originated in the city of Olympia, an ancient city of Greece and conducted for every four years. The games were always held at Mount Olympia and it was Heracles who called the game “Olympic” and he built the Olympic stadium as an honor to Zeus, his father. The Olympic games conducted from 776 BC t0 393 AD. The Olympic were ended after the Roman Emperor, Theodosius gained the power in Greece and eliminated all the practices Greeks were held. After the fall of Olympics games they were not conducted again until the late 19th century.
Modern Olympics:
It was French nobleman, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who revived Olympic games (almost 1500 years after the last ancient Olympics) in 1894. The modern series of the Olympic Games started in 1896 in Athens and since then are held every four years. Separate winter Olympic Games began in 1924. Women have been competing in the Olympics since 1912. India officially participated in the Olympics for the first time in 1920 when four athletes and two wrestlers were sent to participate in the sixth Olympic Games at Antwerp, Belgium.
The Olympic Flag is made up of white silk and contains fine intertwined rings as the Olympics Emblem. From right to left the rings are Blue (for Europe), Yellow (for Asia), Black (for Africa), Red (for America) and Green (for Australia). In 1897, Father Didon composed the games motto 'Citius, Altius, Fortius' in Latin, which means 'Swifter, Higher and Stronger'. However, it was introduced as Olympic motto only in 1920 games.
Olympics - Where and When

Olympiad	Year	Olympics
		Venue	Country
I	1896	Athens	Greece
II	1900	Paris	France
III	1904	St Louis	US
IV	1908	London	Great Britain
V	1912	Stockholm	Sweden
VI*	1916	Berlin	Germany
VII	1920	Antwerp	Belgium
VIII	1924	Paris	France
IX	1928	Amsterdam	Netherlands
X	1932	Los Angeles	US
XI	1936	Berlin	Germany
XII**	1940	Tokyo (then Helsinki)	Japan (then Finland)
XIII**	1944	London	Great Britain
XIV	1948	London	Great Britain
XV	1952	Helsinki	Finland
XVI	1956	Melbourne	Australia
XVII	1960	Rome	Italy
XVIII	1964	Tokyo	Japan
XIX	1968	Mexico City	Mexico
XX	1972	Munich	W. Germany
XXI	1976	Montreal	Canada
XXII	1980	Moscow	USSR
XXIII	1984	Los Angeles	US
XXIV	1988	Seoul	S. Korea
XXV	1992	Barcelona	Spain
XXVI	1996	Atlanta	US
XXVII	2000	Sydney	Australia
XXVIII	2004	Athens	Greece
XXIX	2008	Beijing	China (Scheduled)
XXX	2012	England	UK